Tendencies of Money Transfers
The volume of money transfers from Russia is also returning to the pre-war dynamics:
(million USD)
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2008 |
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01.2008 |
02.2008 |
03.2008 |
04.2008 |
05.2008 |
06.2008 |
07.2008 |
08.2008 |
09.2008 |
10.2008 |
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Money transfers from Russia |
36.0 |
38.0 |
50.1 |
51.4 |
48.3 |
53.5 |
63.4 |
45.0 |
54.2 |
56.8 |
92.6 percent of total money transfers from abroad fall on those big nine donor countries, from which the volume of such transfers exceeds 1 million USD. It is noteworthy that in October of last year share of these 9 countries constituted 88.1 percent of the total volume of money transfers.
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Volume of money transfers in October, 2008 |
Structure of money transfers by the biggest donor countries % |
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October, 2007 |
October, 2008 |
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Total |
92.1 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
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Russia |
56.8 |
55.6 |
61.7 |
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Ukraine |
7.5 |
2.0 |
8.1 |
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USA |
6.1 |
8.1 |
6.6 |
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Greece |
4.3 |
10.2 |
4.7 |
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Italy |
2.8 |
3.2 |
3.0 |
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Turkey |
2.0 |
2.2 |
2.2 |
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Spain |
1.7 |
4.4 |
1.8 |
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Cyprus |
1.2 |
1.0 |
1.3 |
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Kazakhstan |
1.1 |
1.4 |
1.2 |
It is notable, that in October of the current year 6.6 million USD were transferred from Georgia, i.e. 13.2 percent less than in October 2007. The volume of money transfers from Georgia to Russia decreased significantly, by 0.9 million USD (25.6 percent), while the volume of money transfers from Georgia to Ukraine increased by 132.0 thousand USD (14.7 percent).
In October the most popular among the fast money transfer systems for sending money to Georgia were: Western Union (23.0 percent of total amount), Anelic (15.9 percent), Contact (15.7 percent), Unistream (14.1 percent), Intel Express (7.3 percent), Money Gram (6.2 percent), Leader (5.6 percent).
For money transfer from Georgia most popular in October were Western Union - 48.6 percent, Intel Express (14.4 percent) and Anelik (14.1 percent). Next come Leader (8.5 percent), Unistream (4.3 percent) and Money Gram (1.5 percent).
Present statistical information is being published on the statistics headlines.